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3 . Designated site of the Srebrenica Memorial Center Archive before renovation in 2019 | Csaba Szilágyi
4 . The newest storage module of the Srebrenica Memorial Center Archive in 2023 Csaba Szilágyi
The Srebrenica Memorial Center Archive
The genocide committed against over 8,000 Bosniak civilians by the Bosnian Serb Army in the UN “ safe area ” of Srebrenica in July 1995 was Europe ’ s worst mass atrocity since the Holocaust . While it was declared genocide by two international courts , and sentences totaling 206 years in prison were handed down by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to 17 accused , it is relativized and denied widely in Republika Srpska and Serbia , and by their close allies , such as Russia and Hungary .
The Archivum had been active in preserving , publishing , and promoting archival documentation on the prehistory , fall , and afterlife of Srebrenica . A pioneering exhibition entitled Srebrenica-Exhumation in 2010 , based on unique forensic documentation from its own collections , numerous blog posts and scholarly articles , public events and institutional cooperations — including with Sarajevan artist Šejla Kamerić in her Ab uno disce omnes multimedia installation — ensured that the Archivum kept the memory of victims and survivors of the Srebrenica genocide on the agenda .
A more recent ( 2019-2022 ) cooperation between the Archivum and the Srebrenica Memorial Center ( SMC ), with the participation of the Dutch peace organization PAX , aimed at establishing a modern archive for preserving crucial documentation for the study of the Srebrenica genocide . The project involved designing and equipping the facility on the premises of the SMC — a prewar battery factory and the former HQ of the Dutchbat III peacekeepers from 1994 to 1995 — staff training , and organizing working visits at memory institutions in The Netherlands ,
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